Cats and dogs living together! :P

[graculus]

"Has the Internet allowed the power balance between consumer and producer to shift too far?"

That's one of the questions being asked by UK research company Envisional in their study on 'television piracy'. What's that? Downloading episodes off teh Interweb, that's what, as reported here and here, among other places.

The tone of stifled outrage amuses me a little, I have to say.

Meanwhile, heaven forbid that television producers or channels should actually cater to their audience, like re-running earlier episodes of a series for those of us who perennially miss the boat, or releasing stuff on dvd for a reasonable price in a timely manner. Because that would be Bad and Wrong and what are we thinking to even ask them that?

Pffft. No sympathy here, guys.

Comments

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

Adding to the bad wrongness of the whole thing. Those of us who have recording devices usually fast forward through the adverts, or even, shock horror, cut them out! How ev0L of us! We need to be retrained to be good little viewers who sit like stuperous monkeys watching every second of every little bit of brain-numbing marketing these folks want to throw at us.

Why is television still a push system and not a pull system? With all the tech out there, how can they have got away with that for so long?

[mer1973.livejournal.com]

Over hear some cable channels are doing something called "On Demand." Basically, you can watch the programs whenever you want after the original airings in all time zones are finished. So, if you miss the 9 pm East Coast airing of 'Carnivale' you can watch it 'On Demand' after the 9 pm West Coast airing. Regular tv channels won't allow cable companies to put their programs in the listings, but most original HBO & Showtime programming is available.

Personally, within it's limitations, I think it's great.

[cedara]

No sympathy here, guys.

None from me either. And frankly, I don't see torrents any way differently than a friend giving you a copy off a taped episode. They're just realizing they missed the boat and now call us gangsters.

[nausica2.livejournal.com]

None from me either.

If you live in a country where prime TV is full of local shows (some good, some bad) and you need satellite to get the good stuff (and not always on time), Bit Torrent is your friend.

Not to mention everything is dubbed.

So no, no sympathy from me.

[temaris.livejournal.com]

Because I should simply Not Watch something if I think I might like it but can't make the commitment to turn up and park my arse in front of the stupid-machine at the Appointed Time.

My mistake.

*puts back all the shows that she's watched this way*